90 EXCURSIONS ROUNP) LONDON. 



right hand, holding open scissars, intent 

 upon immediately dividing the thread, em- 

 blematical of human life. In the back-ground 

 appears Hygeia, the priestess of health, near 

 a column encircled by a serpent, the em- 

 blem of medicine, and of renovated life; 

 arid laying hold on the hand of Atropos, 

 she prevents the fatal division of the thread. 

 At the lower extremity of the garden is a fi- 

 gure of Contemplation, standing on a stone 

 pedestal, bearing this inscription from the 

 Psalmist : 



O Jehovah ! 



Quam ampla sunt tua opera! 

 Quam sapienter ea fecisti ! 

 Quam plena est terra possessione tua!"* 

 From this delightful spot he led them 

 through an entrance, above which a figure of 



O . * *J 



Flora stands on a pedestal, into a well-stored 

 kitchen-o-arden, the eastern wall of which 



G ' 



opens into the succession-garden, which, like 

 the former, is well stored with wall and 

 other fruit-trees. From the lower extremity 



of 



* ' Lord, how excellent are ihy works ! in wisdom hast . 

 thou made them all : the earth is full cf thy riches." 



